You may have noticed we have two giraffes around the school. Year 4 used newspaper to build these amazing sculptures in a workshop with a local artist. They had to design and communicate how they would build their pieces in teams. Making sure it could stand up meant they had to be…

Year 5 had a lot of fun making these amazing pieces in a metal sculpture workshop from a local visiting artist. They worked together in teams to design and make the sculptures. Being creative and inventive about how they would construct the sculptures and that the structures could stand…

We have been looking at illusions and perspective in Year 5 art sessions. Using a viewpoint and our new perspective drawing skills we set about creating these street scenes in pen and water colour paint.

During our project on birds, we have looked at how illustrators use patten and colour to invent birds and made up own own. We have also been looking at textures and tones for our drawings of feathers where we used combinations of oil pastel, pencil, graphite, chalk and…

For our painting project, we looked at atist such as Alex Katz and Monet. We studied the detail in the leaves and drew them in pencil. We then outlined them in oil paints using overlapping shapes and finally painted the flowers and leaves in bright colours to contrast with…

In our art sessions we have been looking at the artists Matisse and Kandinsky. Both used bright contrasting colours. We used oil pastels and paint to create bold circles like Kandinsky and cut out paper shapes and repeated patterns in our Matisse style…